About After SOAR

After SOAR is a magazine of head-to-heads. It sets SOAR platforms against each other, and against the agentic platforms that vendors now sell in their place, and asks one question of each pairing: what does the documentation say, and what does it leave out. Twelve products are profiled. Every pair among them gets a bout, 66 in all, and each product gets an alternatives page.

Each product is scored on nine published criteria: playbook authoring model, integration count and depth, case management, approvals, documented AI features, hosting and data residency, pricing transparency, migration tooling and formats, and ownership stability. The weights sum to 100. Every score carries a one-line reason, a source link and the date the page was read. Anything a vendor says about itself is labelled as a vendor claim.

The magazine also carries seven switching guides, one for each of the SOARs a team is most likely to leave, and a playbook portability matrix. The matrix records, for seven playbook types, whether the work can move from one platform to another and what the documentation says about it. No cell in it rests on a technical importer document, and the matrix page says so with counts.

A bout is chosen by the editors. Every pair of the twelve profiled products is published, so there is no pair a vendor can avoid. The home page leads with one bout, Tines against Torq. The others follow in alphabetical order by product slug. A vendor cannot pay for a verdict, a score, a place in the order or the choice of the lead bout.

Mate Security is in the set. It is not a SOAR and does not claim to be one. It is scored on the same nine criteria, on what it documents as its own answer to each job, and it places where that evidence puts it. Where it is behind, the page says so. If you find a mistake, write to editor@aftersoar.com with the page, the claim and a source, and read the corrections page for what has changed.